Pictures of the day: 28 September 2012

A wide-eyed baby orangutan screams with fear as a charity worker plucks him to safety from imminent death. The emaciated baby and his mother had become terrified of humans after palm oil workers bulldozed their habitat. The desperate pair had been on the brink of starvation and had just days left before their home was wiped out for good by encroaching deforestation.Picture: Hanna Adcock / Barcroft USA